if you have not seen these videos. you should.if you do not know what these are. you should.you have been misinformed.you have been lied to.you are being controlled.wake up.every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around.

I want to know why my black heart rotsI have loved learned lived loves labor lostWhistling crying dying vying trying writhingNubile and supple living towards who I amI am loved no matter what they sayI am special and am to become moreWhy have I been so wrong and fearfulWhere was my mother father and brotherWhen you locked me out that rainy dayWas it because I was tripping orWas it because you are just a bitch

You are, were and probably will be wrongI want to be pure again and not taintedI want to live again not frustratedYou are like the orgasm that never comesWhy my heart is ripped from my rib cageAnd why have I been left to rot

So Facebook allows its users to import content into their newsfeeds now? Competing with aggregators like Friendfeed? Big deal. The service is already loaded with features that provide no value, so adding a new one isn’t going to make it any better. Let me provide you with five reasons I personally don’t like Facebook very much (hey, it’s just my opinion).

Facebook is a large walled garden that allows users in but never, ever let’s them out.

Even after deletion fo an account your data is still within the Facebook databases. Moving to another service with your data is impossible. Getting your data out leads to account deletion (not data deletion, that remains with Facebook). I don’t like customer lock-in, I want customer freedom.

Facebook is based upon a flawed business model.

They use the free but ad-based business model which is fine when you are a giant search company, but really sucks when your main objective should be allowing your users to interact. There is no place for ads in interaction. It’s merely trespassing in conversations between friends.Facebook newsfeeds are highly overrated.

They might have been the first to implement them, but the newsfeed sucks. I recently took a picture of my own newsfeed and it has learned me that one of my friends is playing Scrabble, three people added an application, someone had changed his profile picture (which was sort of obvious as I could already see that it had changed), and some advertisement for large Facebook groups I should be in. I’m not interested to read ‘Alexander went to movie X”. I’m interested in personal message like “Hey, I went to movie X last night. Had a great time, you should go see it too”. The first message was an Orwellian Facebook Big Brother is watching you headline. The second one was a personal message from a friend. Pick the one you like best.

Facebook is spam.

Can’t say it any clearer. While a lot of Facebook’s intentions (and those that create Facebook applications), might be to provide the user a good time, it is spammy as hell. I get a lot of requests to look at things my friends send me, only to find out I need to forward it to other friends too. Often even before I get to see the content. I don’t want to harass my friends with that. Which reminds me that I need to talk to the person sending me that stuff too

Facebook is about data hogging, not about user value

Facebook isn’t there to provide its users with value. It is there to collect all the data it can get out of you, your social graph, your actions inside and outside the walled garden. It needs to do this in order to fuel it’s business model (that is why the business model is wrong). Facebook shouldn’t be hogging data, they should be providing user value. Instead of customer lock-in, they should be thinking about customer freedom. Instead of importing feeds from other sites, they should be opening up themselves to third parties. Instead of locking me down they should allow me to leave if I want to and taking my friends and data wherever I want to go. But they don’t, and you already know why.

this is the 'wasp knife' or 'gas knife' now becoming popular. original invention was credited to nazi saidist himmler. hhhmmmmm. is someone forgetting the past?

Deadly Compressed Air Knife (Updated)By Sharon Weinberger If you were creeped out by the compressed air gun used by the villain in No Country for Old Men, you might want to skip this post. There's a new patent out for a deadly compressed gas knife, which like its name suggests, injects compressed air into the victim (making it a more deadly weapon than a regular knife).

The kife would be "particularly useful for a diver and that when an undersea creature is pierced, the compressed gas both causes tissue and organ damage and provides buoyancy to float the creature towards the surface."

Here's more from the patent:

The handle has an internal cavity containing a compressed gas source and the blade is affixed to the handle. The blade has an internal bore running along a longitudinal axis from the handle to a point proximate a tip. The blade further has an aperture extending from a first edge to the internal bore at an anglerelative to the longitudinal axis of between 15.degree. and 75.degree.. The trigger has a depressed position and a not depressed position. When in the depressed position, the internal bore communicates with the compressed gas source and when in said not depressed position, the internal bore is blocked from the compressed gas source. When a creature is pierced with the knife, the trigger is depressed injecting compressed gas into the creature greatly enhancing the incapacitating effect of the knife.

The knife is designed for scuba divers, not murderous lunatics, says the patent. Then again, the compressed air gun in No Country for Old Men was meant for cattle.

Update:

DANGER ROOM's very own David Hambling reminds me that the compressed air knife has a precursor, the Farallon Shark Dart, a U.S. Navy weapon from the 1970s:

The most common version resembles a slim dagger, with a CO2 cartridge in the handle and a long hollow needle for a blade. The idea was to stab the shark, causing the CO2 to be released into its body. The idea was that this would not kill it but would affect its buoyancy, forcing it to break off the attack without leaving much blood in the water. The reality may have been more gruesome.

"I saw some footage on it, it was horrible," says a diver describing the effects here. "Their bellies would inflate and they said it would force the shark’s stomach out of their mouths."